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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

What is Content Marketing

Content marketing is the new market formula for online advertising.

It gives businesses a whole lot of new opportunities in addition to the wide reach that it provides. It allows to businesses to penetrate their market objective faster and easier. In addition, it gives businesses that personal connection to its consumers which would have taken conventional advertising a lot more slower. It is faster, cheaper and lot less cumbersome compared to conventional advertising. In short, content marketing is knowing what your consumers want and translating that need through content.

The key to understanding content marketing is to know what tickles the market’s fancy. You have to put yourself into the customer’s shoes and start thinking like a consumer and make your content relevant. Make it feel that each word is addressed directly to the consumer. Once you have learned to achieve that personal connection with your consumer, you can easily achieve your market objective.

Basically, one of the easiest ways to retain existing clients is to show them that their product choice is still the best decision that they have made. It also makes them feel how valuable their brand is, and gives them a sudden urge to be a part of their lifestyle. This way, by going the content, the consumer is hooked on to the product thereby creating a brand loyalty to the product and is able to relate to the product on a personal level. This is what defines effective content marketing.

Considering the time today's online market spends in front of their cellphones, laptops and other gizmos, content marketing helps keep your marketing campaign. It is always better to market your message through online content than compared to traditional forms of advertising or marketing. To be specific;

Social Media Marketing : Only good content will generate good social media following. In other words, if there is nothing interesting, it is a waste to post it on social media channels.

Public Relations : Content is the best way to create a personal connection between the target market and you.

Generating Traffic : Content is the best form to generate traffic to your site than anything else.

Marketing really is impossible without the great content that comes with it. One of the reasons why advertisers have started using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to focus that their new ads become hits. Popular search engines sort through the entire content on the web and come up with results based on the relevant searches. Combined with good original and unique content, SEO almost guarantees that search find their websites during online searches. Alternately, if you are not able to position your content effectively, it would mean getting covered by competitor brands who have invested more and better on their content. In other words, you should have a clear objective of what your content is aiming for.

Having said that, content marketing is not about satisfying the needs of anyone who visits your site, but it is also about ensuring that major search engines show our site to those who carry out a search that is relevant to our content. Whether you aspire to become a small business owner, or run a mega-empire you need to include this basic formula into your marketing plans.